Ferryhill Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Ferryhill Junction (1853-1967)Opened on the Deeside Railway.
Opened on the Aberdeen Railway.
Description
This was the junction between the Deeside Railway and the Aberdeen Railway. The junction was just north of Ferryhill Shed [1st] and the Dee Viaduct and south of Ferryhill (Aberdeen) (which survived until 1854 to be replaced by Aberdeen Guild Street), later replaced by Aberdeen Joint. The junction gave access to the branch from Aberdeen Joint.
Ferryhill Shed was within the 'V' of the junction.
The Deeside Railway was doubled as far as Cults in 1884.
The signal box, which had been in the 'V' of the junction between the Deeside and line to the south, was replaced with a new larger box on the west side of the junction in 1905. Further lines ran to the expanded Aberdeen Joint and the shed had been enlarged. Signal bridges were erected over the main line junction approaches.
In 1951/53 the Deeside line was reduced to a single track to as far west as Culter, the westbound line was lifted. The line remained double track between the junction and a short distance to the west.
The Deeside closed in 1967.
The junction box closed in 1981, replaced by the Aberdeen Signalling Centre. Ferryhill Shed closed in 1988.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Aberdeen Ferryhill Aberdeen Aberdeen Guild Street Holburn Street Aberdeen Waterloo Schoolhill Ruthrieston Hutcheon Street Aberdeen Kittybrewster Kittybrewster [1st] Kittybrewster [2nd] Pitfodels Halt Cove Bay Don Street Woodside [GNSR] | Ferryhill Foundry Ferryhill MPD Ferryhill Shed [1st] Dee Viaduct Aberdeen Signalling Centre Aberdeen Corporation Electricity Works Craiginches North Sidings Craiginches Saw Mill Aberdeen South Signal Box Duthie Park Craiginches Iron Works Pitmuxton Siding Clayhills Yard Tourist/other Devanha Distillery Ferryhill House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Other uses for a cattle bankBy Ferryhill Junction was a cattle depot with a loading bank. The Caledonian Railway would issue tickets to admit well-wishers here when the Royal Train was going to or from the Deeside Railway, the train did not run through to Aberdeen but reversed at the junction. For a train from the branch the Great North of Scotland Railway locomotives would be taken off at the north end and the Caledonian Railway locomotives added to the south end. |
Chronology Dates
| 28/05/1852 | Deeside Railway Deeside Railway re-authorised from Ferryhill Junction to Banchory [1st]. |
| 03/08/1854 | Aberdeen Railway
Deeside Railway The Deeside Railway is granted running powers over the Aberdeen Railway between the Aberdeen (Guild Street) terminus and Ferryhill Junction. The payment required was established in 1855. |
| 14/06/1884 | Deeside Railway Doubled from Ferryhill Junction to Cults. |
| / /1899 | Aberdeen Joint (Caledonian Railway)
Aberdeen Railway Authorisation to rebuild and enlarge Aberdeen Joint station and considerably widen the lines, (from two tracks to five to six), south from Denburn Junction to Ferryhill Junction. |
| / /1951 | Deeside Railway Line singled from Park to Culter, Murtle, Cults and Ferryhill Junction. Drum station and signal box closed. |
| 28/02/1966 | Aboyne and Braemar Railway Ballater to Aberdeen (Ferryhill Junction) closed to passengers. |
| 02/01/1967 | Deeside Railway Culter to Ferryhill Junction closed to freight. Culter Paper Mill ceases to be rail served. |
